Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Interesting: Obama's reliance on Executive Orders will make it easy for a new President to erase his legacy...

President Obama seems to aspire to join Franklin
Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan as one of the three most transformative
presidents of the past hundred years, and by all outward signs he has
achieved that goal. But while Roosevelt and Reagan sold their programs
to the American people and enacted them with bipartisan support, Mr.
Obama jammed his partisan agenda down the public’s throat. The Obama
legacy is built on executive orders, regulations and agency actions that
can be overturned using the same authority Mr. Obama employed to put
them in place.
An array of President Obama’s policies—changing immigration law,
blocking the Keystone XL pipeline, the Iranian nuclear agreement and the
normalization of relations with Cuba, among others—were implemented
exclusively through executive action. Because any president is free “to
revoke, modify or supersede his own orders or those issued by a
predecessor,” as the Congressional Research Service puts it, a
Republican president could overturn every Obama executive action the
moment after taking the oath of office.Keep on reading…